Accounting controls within the cashier’s cage

(1) The assets for which the General Imprest Cashiers are responsible shall be maintained on a Imprest basis. At the end of each shift, the cashiers assigned to the outgoing shift, shall record on a cashier’s count sheet the face value of each cage inventory item counted and the total of the opening and closing cage. 160 Gaming Control cage inventories and shall reconcile the total of opening and closing cage inventories and shall reconcile the total closing inventory with the total opening inventory. (2) The Cashier’s Cage shall be physically segregated by personnel and functions as follows– (a) General Imprest Cashiers shall operate with individual imprest inventories of cash and such cashiers’ functions shall be, but are not limited to, the following– (i) receive cash, cash equivalent, cheques, gaming chips and plaques from patrons for marker consolidations, total or partial redemptions or substitutions; (ii) receive gaming chips and plaques from patrons in exchange for cash; (iii) receive travellers’ cheques and other cash equivalents from patrons in exchange for currency or coin; (iv) receive cash, cash equivalents, gaming chips and plaques from patrons in exchange for customer deposit forms; (v) receive customer deposit forms from patrons in exchange for cash in accordance with these Regulations; (vi) receive markers from marker bank cashiers to be returned to patrons for partial or substitutions; Gaming Control 161 (vii) receive from marker, fill and main bank cashiers, documentation with signatures thereon, required to be prepared for the effective segregation of functions in the (viii) receive personal cheques for non- gaming purposes to a maximum of $500 a day for any one patron, such cheques to be exchanged for cash with the main bank cashier; and (ix) in the event of receiving gaming chips from persons who have not been gaming (or cannot reasonably be thought to have been gaming), for exchange for cash, the cashier will cause an entry to be made in a separate log, established for the purpose, of the name and address of the person making the exchange, the date, and the amounts and denominations of the chips (b) Marker bank cashiers shall not have access to cash, gaming chips and plaques and such cashier’s functions shall be, but are not limited to, the following– (i) receive and maintain custody of markers in conformity with Regulation 25; (ii) maintain a marker activity log in conformity with Regulation 27; (iii) receive and maintain custody of cheques accepted by general imprest cashiers; 162 Gaming Control (iv) receive from general, fill and Main Bank Cashiers documentation with signatures thereon, required for the effective segregation of functions in the (c) Fill bank cashiers shall not have access to currency or cash equivalents, except for a limited inventory of fifty and twenty-five cents coins which may only be used to facilitate odds payoffs or vigorish bets. Such cashiers’ functions shall be, but are not limited to, the following– (i) receive from Security Department Members, chips, plaques, and coins removed from in exchange for the issuance of a Credit; (ii) receive from Security Department Members, requests for fills in exchange for the issuance of a fill and the disbursal of gaming chips, plaques, or coins; (iii) receive chips from the General Imprest Cashiers in exchange for proper documentation; and (iv) receive from general, marker and main bank cashiers documentation with signatures thereon, required for the effective segregation of functions in the (d) Main bank cashiers’ functions shall be, but are not limited to, the followingGaming Control 163 (i) receive cash, cash equivalents, personal cheques (received for non-gaming purposes to a maximum of $500 a day for any one patron), and documentation from general imprest cashiers in exchange for cash; (ii) receive cash from the coin and currency (iii) receive and supporting documentation from bank cashiers via general imprest cashiers for (iv) prepare the overall cage reconciliation and accounting records; (v) receive from general, fill, and marker bank cashiers, documentation with signatures thereon, required to be prepared for the effective segregation of functions in the Cashier’s Cage. (3) Belizean currency may not be exchanged for foreign currency at the Cashier’s Cage and deposits of Belizean currency may only be re-paid in Belizean currency or chips. (4) Signatures attesting to the accuracy of the information contained on the following sheets shall be, at a minimum– (a) on the Cashier’s count sheet, the signatures of the general imprest cashiers assigned to the incoming and outgoing shifts; (b) on the marker bank closeout sheet, the signatures of the marker bank cashiers assigned to the incoming and outgoing shifts; 164 Gaming Control (c) on the fill bank closeout sheet, the signatures of the fill bank cashiers assigned to the incoming and outgoing shifts; (d) on the main bank closeout sheet, the signatures of the Main Bank Cashiers assigned to the incoming and outgoing shifts. (5) At the conclusion of gaming activity each day, at a minimum, copies of the cashiers count sheet, recapitulation, fill, main, marker and main slot bank closeout sheets and related documentation, shall be forwarded to the Accounting Department for agreement of opening and closing inventories, and agreement of amounts thereon to other forms, records and documentation required by these Regulations or for the recording of transactions.